captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a saturday. i m lester holt. and i m kate snow. thank you for having me. great to have you. been a while since you ve been up this early in the morning. i set the alarm for 3:00 a.m. fir time you ve been up at this hour on a weekend in the studio. nice to have you here. thanks for having me. we have a lot coming up. that crude film about islam has set off protests around the world. now a california man said to be behind it was brought in for questioning. officials say he s not under arrest, but they want to know if he violated his probation on bank fraud charges by going online. we ll get a live report in just a moment. also ahead, a very special homecoming for amy copeland, the georgia woman who battled a flesh eating bacteria and won. this morning you ll see how she s overcome the odds with a big smile on her face. chances are by now you ve seen the video of a 77-
for love on the dating game. what she s saying about the latest viral video today saturday, september 15th, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a saturday. i m lester holt. and i m kate snow. thank you for having me. great to have you. been a while since you ve been up this early in the morning. i set the alarm for 3:00 a.m. first time you ve been up at this hour on a weekend in the studio. nice to have you here. thanks for having me. we have a lot coming up. that crude film about islam has set off protests around the world. now a california man said to be behind it was brought in for questioning. officials say he s not under arrest, but they want to know if he violated his probation on bank fraud charges by going online. we ll get a live report in just a moment. also ahead, a very special homecoming for amy copeland, the georgia woman who battled a flesh eating bacteria and won. this morning you
captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this thursday morning, i m meredith vieira. and i m matt lauer. confirmation of army general david petraeus as the new top commander in afghanistan is expected to come pretty quickly, after president obama accepted the resignation of general stanley mcchrystal during that brief meeting at the white house on wednesday. general petraeus is credited with turning around the war in iraq, and now president obama is banking on the fact that he can do the same thing in afghanistan. how are u.s. troops on the ground there reacting to shake-up in leadership? and does the man who wrote the rolling stone article that led to mcchrystal s firing, how does he feel about it all? we ll ask him when he joins us live from kabul straight ahead. also friday, tomorrow, marks the one-year anniversary of farrah fawcett s death. this morning we will look back at her courageous battle against cancer and talk to her longt